There were US airstrikes on the 7th and the 8th and the 10th of February so combat continued for at least 4 days which would not have been the case had the US magically destroyed 2 battalions in the field.

And before you attack the Livejournal link -- its the blog of Dimitri Morkushin who is the god of all things Russian MIC. Basically every Yankee source that publishes anything about the Russian military or defense sector is just translating either Morkushin or CAST. There are no other open source sources worth a damn.

Anyway, today the Soviet press is acknowledging the previously classified agreements to sell 500 BMP-3s to Iraq and 900 to Saudi Arabia. We are kicking Yankeestan the hell out of the middle east one deal at a time.